Tsakonian language

Tsakonian
Tsakonian
τσακώνικα
Native to	Greece
Region	Eastern Peloponnese, around Mount Parnon
Native speakers	300-1,500 (2010)
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Greek Doric Tsakonian; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tsd
Linguasphere	56-AAA-b
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Tsakonian (also Tsaconian, Tzakonian or Tsakonic; Tsakonian: τσακώνικα, α τσακώνικα γρούσσα; Greek: τσακώνικα) is a Hellenic language. It is spoken in the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece and comes from Doric Greek. It is similar to Greek, but people speaking the two languages cannot talk to each other. Only a few hundred people are left who speak the language. Most of these are elderly people.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Tsakonian Language Media

Old ethnic map of Peloponnese; Tsakonian-speaking areas in blue
(Tsakonian/Greek) "Our language is Tsakonian. Ask and they'll tell you./Groússa námou eíni ta Tsakónika. Rotíete na nioúm' alíoi./I glóssa mas eínai ta Tsakónika. Rotíste na sas poun.", bilingual (Tsakonian and Standard Greek) sign in the town of Leonidio.

References

↑ "Tsakonian" (in en). Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tsd. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
↑ "Linguist List". Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
↑ Browning, Robert (1983). Medieval and modern Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 124.
↑ Horrocks, Geoffrey (2010). Greek: A history of the language and its speakers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. p. 382. ISBN 9781405134156.
↑ Joseph, Brian D.; Terdanelis, Georgios (2003). "Modern Greek". In Roelcke, Thorsten (ed.). Variation typology: a typological handbook of European languages. Berlin: de Gruyter. pp. 823–836. ISBN 9783110160833.Joseph, Brian D. (2012). "Lexical diffusion and the regular transmission of language chang in its sociohistorical context". In Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel; Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo (eds.). Handbook of historical sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 411.
↑ Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. New York: Routledge. s.v. "Tsakonian".

[1] "Tsakonian" (in en). Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tsd. Retrieved 2018-03-13.

[2] "Linguist List". Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2020-06-05.

[3] Browning, Robert (1983). Medieval and modern Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 124.

[4] Horrocks, Geoffrey (2010). Greek: A history of the language and its speakers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. p. 382. ISBN 9781405134156.

[5] Joseph, Brian D.; Terdanelis, Georgios (2003). "Modern Greek". In Roelcke, Thorsten (ed.). Variation typology: a typological handbook of European languages. Berlin: de Gruyter. pp. 823–836. ISBN 9783110160833.Joseph, Brian D. (2012). "Lexical diffusion and the regular transmission of language chang in its sociohistorical context". In Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel; Conde-Silvestre, Juan Camilo (eds.). Handbook of historical sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 411.

[Moseley-6] Moseley, Christopher (2007). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. New York: Routledge. s.v. "Tsakonian".

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